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Foucault and Augustine : reconsidering power and love / J. Joyce Schuld.
Van Pelt Library B2430.F724 S37 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schuld, J. Joyce.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Religion.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
- Religion.
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
- Augustine.
- Religion and sociology.
- Religion--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- x, 299 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Dynamic fragility : an analysis of power and love
- Harmony and rupture : a theology of relational dependence
- Power's social omnipresence
- Power's social mechanics
- Ambiguous relations and intransigent dangers
- Vertigo and complicity : unraveling the complexities of social evil
- The namelessness of social evil
- Anonymity, authorship, and responsibility
- The enigmatic closeness of social evil
- Metaphors of permeation
- Desires, habits, and governance : a case study of performative vulnerabilities
- The power of desiring and social configuration
- The power of habituation and social configuration
- Fragile relations and the price of perfection : the lust for certidude
- Moral ambiguity and the search for social perfection
- The wisdom of sorrow and the ethic of humility
- Modern transformations of sin and salvation
- Deconstructing privileged discourses : the ambiguity of social achievements
- The rhetoric of glory : ancient dangers of ordering disorder
- The rhetoric of progress : modern dangers of ordering disorder.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-291) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0268028680
- 0268028699
- OCLC:
- 52519098
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